{"id":33084,"date":"2012-12-13T14:47:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T21:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=33084"},"modified":"2012-12-13T14:47:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T21:47:14","slug":"the-economist-a-new-survey-illuminates-the-extent-of-chinese-income-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/12\/13\/the-economist-a-new-survey-illuminates-the-extent-of-chinese-income-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economist: A new survey illuminates the extent of Chinese income inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THANKS to apartheid, broken job markets and monopolistic mining, South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world. The top 10% of households pocketed 58% of the income in 2008, according to researchers at the University of Cape Town. The country\u2019s Gini coefficient, which measures inequality on a scale of 0 to 1, was 0.7.<\/p>\n<p>But South Africa\u2019s inequality may soon be equalled by an unexpected rival: communist China. According to a new survey, the top tenth of Chinese households took home 57% of the income in 2010. The country\u2019s Gini coefficient was 0.61, far higher than previous estimates (which ranged from 0.41 to 0.48).<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/finance-and-economics\/21568423-new-survey-illuminates-extent-chinese-income-inequality-each-not\" title=\"Chinese Economic Inequality\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>for the full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THANKS to apartheid, broken job markets and monopolistic mining, South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world. The top 10% of households pocketed 58% of the income in 2008, according to researchers at the University of Cape Town. The country\u2019s Gini coefficient, which measures inequality on a scale of 0 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33086,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33084\/revisions\/33086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}